Recover a datasource password in ColdFusion
I forgot a password to a mySQL datasource on my personal VPS. Not the end of the world I can log in to mySQL and reset it if I need but I knew these passwords were in new-datasource.xml in an encrypted format and was curious to see if I could decrypt that password. Turns out you can.
I used this post as a staring point http://paulalkema.com/post.cfm/pull-a-list-of-all-coldfusion-datasources-along-with-username-and-passwords
and while I was at it built this small app in case I need it in the future.
